Hi folks,I'm dying to try out vectorlinux!I've just spent a week with slackware 64-bit 14.0 and love it, but find it a bit too much of a steep curve up formy limited CLI skills.

Problem: I have twice tried to get the iso for VL 64 SV from the official web site, and twice have lost the iso and the data!The second time, using ktorrent, I got to the very last bit, at 698.9mg, when up flashed a screen too fast to read properly,sthg to the effect of "an illegal" sthg or other, and she was gone!

So combining both failed attempts, I've burned a whopping Gigabyte of data for nothing! can't afford to fail again.

Question: could someone please send me an url for a more certain download? (or was it perhaps that my version of ktorrent, working under slackware's strict restrictions on propriety, didn't like the iso for some neuro-techtonic reason and spat it out at the last?)

mkdir downloadcd downloadwget -c http://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/VL64-7.0/iso-release/VL64-7.0.1-STD-FINAL.iso.md5sum.txt http://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/VL64-7.0/iso-release/VL64-7.0.1-STD-FINAL.isoThe "-c" is for "continue". It's ok to use this on the first attempt; using it on subsequent attempts should allow you to complete an aborted download rather than starting from scratch. The first URL there grabs the md5sum so you can verify your download.

The md5sum.txt file is very, very small, and restarting downloads with wget is cheap as far as data use goes. Of course you'll still use the amount necessary to grab the file, but you should have a good one when you're done. There's a way to try starting with any partial file you have, but I give it a low chance of success and don't suggest it.

edit: Changed my mind. mkdir download, cd download. If you have a partial file (mostly complete from what you said) copy it here. Be sure the name matches. If not, mv <oldname> VL64-7.0.1-STD-FINAL.iso Then do the complete wget and md5sum commands from above.

If the filesize you have is what you say, trying this first will cost very few bytes. If it doesn't work, delete the ISO, take a deep breath, say bye to most of another GB of use, and rerun the wget and md5sum commands. OR: there's a way to lop off the last several bytes of a previous attempt and try again using "dd". If you'd like to try that, post back. I probably won't be here, but someone else will know what I'm saying and send the info.